Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [adv] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately , Ted 's small workshop was crammed full of other assorted engineering tackle and as the arrival of a larger workshop was imminent we decided to sheet the engine side down outside until the new workshop was erected .
2 The West Court has a paved entry from the north , but by way of steps down rather than a ramp up .
3 For many , the very phrase risk management may have been a switch off even before the experts started whipping up the campaign with the emphasis on the disaster scenario — terrorist bombings , sinking oil tankers , fraud , kidnap and computer fires .
4 In this sense , a physics degree can indeed be a narrowing down rather than a broadening out .
5 Hurworth councillor Peter Foster said : ‘ Someone 's going to run a little child over soon because the lollipop lady is busy asking drivers to move on .
6 Why do n't they have a drummer up there and a bass player instead of programming everything ? ’
7 Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went .
8 The timber opened as they breasted a ridge and Trent glimpsed a steeply-sloping meadow up ahead and a patch of white .
9 Shoving it in , shoving it into first , bring the clutch up quickly and the car goes weer and virtually stops
10 Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party .
11 Compared with the stereotyped western firm , they operate from the bottom up rather than the top down .
12 We ask for reference back so that a closer look can be taken at these problems in the administration of the benefits .
13 ‘ Then knock the lid down so that the rough edges are holding the lid in place , so to speak , and leave it again for a bit .
14 Now the clerk 's got any other business down here and the date 's two meetings past .
15 This might be to speed the job up to earn a larger bonus or to create some leisure time during the working shift , or to slow the job down so that an impression of busy-ness is created and he is not given further work .
16 There would have been no sound down there but the sibilant trickle of water .
17 The whole feeling of producing the correct inside attack is one of turning away , curbing the power of the right side , and then timing the hips so that the clubhead pulls the body through rather than the body pushing it .
18 I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … .
19 Supporters of the legislation point out however that the number of car accident deaths is continuing to decline , even though the proportion of small cars on America 's roads is increasing .
20 Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ?
21 It 's no good looking for a man 's body round here if the owner 's living it up in Costa Rica .
22 As with bleeding , raise the affected part up so that the circulation slows down .
23 ‘ Take a look up there where the killer must have stood or knelt . ’
24 Maybe an apple cos I put some apples down there cos the black
25 Nevertheless , ‘ Do You Remember ’ stomps along endearingly and the version of ‘ Talulah Gosh ’ , with its uncertain changes of pace , is a neat blueprint of the later single .
26 English Language is the study of the English language as it is today as well as of the history of its development over more than a thousand years .
27 I know I took a saw with the idea of cutting his head off so that the body could n't be identified .
28 I put that price up more than the standard , that 's wrong .
29 We used to get ours , I used to fetch ours and we used to have them on show Saturday nights , with the lights up outside and the shop open .
30 One theory I came up with was that the down beat of its wings pushed it upwards and the up beat pushed it downwards and the two cancelled each other out so that the kestrel stayed where it was .
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